STATESBORO — Georgia Southern University will become 100 percent tobacco-free on Friday, GSU President Dr. Brooks Keel recently announced. The move to prohibit tobacco use across campus comes after a March 2014 vote by the Board of Regents to ban the use of tobacco products on property owned, leased, rented or in the possession of the University System of Georgia. “Beginning Aug. 1, the use of tobacco is prohibited in any area of campus,” Keel said in an email to faculty and staff.